Treaty of Paris (1796)
King Vittorio Amedeo III |
The Treaty of Paris of 15 May 1796 was a
After four years of fighting, the French under
In the following treaty, King Victor Amadeus III recognized the French Republic, ceded the original Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice to France and gave the French Revolutionary Army free passage through his territory towards the rest of Italy. The King died a few months after signing the treaty.
The French interest in Savoy had already been demonstrated in 1792 when the revolutionaries had annexed these lands as the 84th French Département under the name Mont-Blanc. This had provoked the war with Piedmont-Sardinia.
Piedmont-Sardinia never accepted these losses and in the Treaty of Paris (1814) they retrieved part of Savoy, and one year later in the Treaty of Paris (1815), the rest of these territories. They would be regained by France under Napoleon III.
Bibliography
- Botta, Carlo Giuseppe G.(1825). Supplementi alla Storia d'Italia contenente la corrispondenza del governo francese col General Bonaparte (in Italian). Pisa: Nistri e Capuso.